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Why the new British GT season is too tough to call

“It’s going to be tough,” states Jonny Adam. “With 19 cars in GT3, good line-ups, the quality I think has gone up another level from last year. And there’s good returning teams that know their baseline of where they should be.”

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Gamble latest BTCC race winner planning Porsche Carrera Cup GB return

Fellow BTCC victors Dan Lloyd and Stephen Jelley have already revealed plans to make Carrera Cup comebacks this season and they will now be joined by Gamble, who endured a frustrating tin-top campaign in a Speedworks Motorsport Toyota last year.

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Aston Martin F1 ambassador Hawkins joins Beechdean for British GT debut

The 29-year-old tested Aston Martin’s AMR21 at the Hungaroring last year as she became the first female since 2018 to drive a modern F1 car.

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Porsche ace Smalley to make British GT debut with Garage 59 McLaren

The 23-year-old, who also won the 2018 Ginetta Junior and 2021 GT4 Supercup titles with Elite Motorsport, will partner Shaun Balfe after the Am driver moved across from Barwell Motorsport.

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Collards join forces at Barwell in British GT title tilt

Collard Sr, a multiple British Touring Car race winner, returns to British GT for the first time since taking the outright GT3 title alongside Sandy Mitchell in 2020. The 55-year-old most recently claimed second in the GT World Challenge Europe Pro-Am standings alongside Dennis Lind last year. “Our biggest job…

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How Porsche is preparing its new Junior for the big stage

The list just keeps getting longer. Josh Webster, Charlie Eastwood, Dan Harper, Harry King and now Adam Smalley have all won the Porsche Carrera Cup GB championship during their two seasons as the Porsche GB Junior. That run of success proves that Porsche is pretty good at picking out stars…

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Lotus brand returns to British GT in 2024

The iconic British brand will compete in the championship for the first time since an invitational entry raced in 2017 at Silverstone, with the manufacturer's most recent GT4 appearance coming a year earlier with the Evora as the same model scored the last of Lotus's British GT wins in 2015.

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When is F1 and every other motorsport series starting in 2024?

Formula 1 is in the midst of its off-season like many other motorsport championships, but it really is not long until racing gets back underway.

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How club racing proved resilient in 2023

Stubbornly high inflation, a squeeze on incomes and weak economic growth. The UK’s financial situation during 2023 does not exactly sound like the ideal conditions for motorsport to thrive. And yet, there have been encouraging signs of resilience in the club racing world, with some impressive entries over the past…

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Video: Adam/Cottingham rise to the top amid British GT incidents

They say it’s calm in the eye of a storm, and last weekend’s British GT three-hour away-day in Algarve was indeed a stormy affair. Numerous incidents and three safety car interruptions – one of which lasted half an hour – jumbled the order, yet out the other side came the…

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How British GT is holding drivers to account for misdemeanours

Without doubt one of the biggest appeals of endurance racing is the multi-class format that it provides, allowing cars and drivers of different performance and abilities to take to the track at the same time. It means that simply being the fastest is not enough to guarantee a crew victory,…

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The revived initiative imported from Japan brings fans closer to motorsport

“And, if you look to your right, you’ll see a GT3 car in its natural environment”. OK, so no one actually said that to this writer’s knowledge, but it certainly wouldn’t have been an out of place statement at Donington Park last weekend.

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The early signs of optimism for national racing amid cost of living pinch

Where has the time gone?! It’s already over a month since the 2023 club circuit-racing campaign began when the Classic Sports Car Club shook off the winter blues with its successful season-opening event at Silverstone at the end of February.

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Can Marciello translate European success to British GT?

“I’m convinced, without fail, I have the best driver in GT racing with me.” It’s quite a statement to make about your team-mate, but John Ferguson has every reason to believe just that about the driver he’ll be racing alongside in this season’s British GT3 Championship, which kicks off at…

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The national series enjoying a Super Touring-esque boom

There are numerous reasons for Super Touring being upheld as the British Touring Car Championship’s zenith over 20 years on. Close racing between cars that looked and sounded different, while bearing a similarity with those you might find in the supermarket car park, is surely a factor.

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Why three UK series occupying the same turf are thriving

The UK is blessed with an abundance of championships and series that cater for a huge variety of machines, perhaps none more so than with GT racing. Three key championships – British GT, GT Cup and the British Endurance Championship – are not only surviving but thriving, despite occupying a…

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Adam joins Cottingham at 2 Seas for British GT campaign

Factory Aston Martin driver Adam will partner Cottingham at five of the seven events this year, but will have to miss the Silverstone three-hour race in May and the Donington Park finale in October due to clashes with the European Le Mans Series.

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The GT racing powerhouse built on an ice cream empire

“I remember sitting there watching these GTs thundering around Spa and it was just hypnotic, and I think that’s the first time motor racing, and especially GT racing, just hooked me.”

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Friday Favourite: The Bolton hard charger behind a GT giant-killing

Kurt Luby and Richard Dean were a hugely successful pairing in the late 1990s as British GT approached the end of its GT1 era. Dean picks out the Bolton wonder as his favourite team-mate from a period that yielded an against-the-odds outright win for a GT2 car and a one-off…

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Fox Motorsports' British GT Spa win upheld by UK National Court

Fox Motorsports’ appeal following victory at the British GT round at Spa-Francorchamps has been upheld by the UK’s National Court, meaning Nick Halstead and Jamie Stanley keep their win.

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British GT Oulton Park result overturned after RAM appeal upheld

The result of British GT’s second Oulton Park race has been finalised after RAM Racing’s appeal was upheld by Motorsport UK’s national court on Tuesday.

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The unresolved issue that overshadowed British GT's latest race

British GT held its three-hour Silverstone event under a cloud last weekend, as the ongoing appeal into how the championship applied its success seconds at the season-opening Oulton Park meeting had a significant knock-on effect

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Appeal date set for British GT Oulton Park results hearing

An appeal hearing into the result of British GT's second Oulton Park race will be heard on 17 May, after last weekend's Silverstone round was staged without success penalties.

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Howard to sub for Fletcher in McLaren at Silverstone British GT

Double British GT champion Andrew Howard will make a one-off comeback to the series this weekend at Silverstone, subbing for Kelvin Fletcher in the Paddock Motorsport McLaren alongside Martin Plowman.

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